rattleweed

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any plant of the genus Astragalus. of milkvetches.
  2. Certain other plants:
  3. Cobwebby wild indigo (Baptisia arachnifera), an endangered legume native to the United States.
  4. Fremont’s leather flower (Clematis fremontii), a flowering plant in the buttercup family found in the United States.
  5. Rattlepod (Crotalaria retusa), a flowering legume native to tropical Asia, Africa, and Australia.
  6. Desert senna (Senna covesii), a perennial subshrub native to the United States and Mexico.
  7. Black cohosh (Actaea racemosa)

Word forms

rattleweed rattleweeds

Etymology

From rattle + weed.

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